The feature documentary When We Were Kings directed by Leon Gast is set in 1974 and deals with the lead up to and actual fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, this is widely known as the greatest fight of all time. ... These films are both based upon black African-American men and the way they deal with persecution in the 60's and 70's. ... Leon Gast conveys the social commentary or issue of freedom in his feature documentary When We Were Kings. ... He is flying in a plane where all the pilots and hostesses are black. ... All they want is freedom, freedom to play sport, free...

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By this I mean developing yourself in a way that you do all that is in your power to be the best you can be and more. ... In short it is the whole nonmaterial development of a person in all the intellectual and spiritual (non religious sense) aspects of life. ... What all these philosophers have in common is that they believe in an intellectual and spiritual development of the human being that is completely detached from the material aspect of life. ... Then I will elevate the views of Karl Marx's "complete individual" to the level of a socialist society and compare it to the society r...

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Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. ... They were also one of the most democratic groups in Europe, and they valued their family above all. ... In Gaelic history there are stories of High Kings invading various parts of Britain when they were at their most powerful; more especially Niall of the Nine Hostages who repeatedly invaded Britain and Scotland, conquering the Picts and harrying the Romans as they retreated south. ... To this day, although in Northern Ireland, Armagh is indeed the religious centre of all Ireland. ... The men in this kingdom were ready to form alliances with th...

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In each production of Henry V, the emphasis changes: Henry can appear to be "the mirror of all Christian Kings" or as a cynic who uses the, seemingly corrupt, church to justify his actions. The play is full of noble speeches, heroic battles, and valiant English underdogs fighting their way to victory against all odds. ... Henry has already previously warned that "We would have all such offenders so cut off," meaning that he hopes all looters will be hanged, without exception. ... When his father, Henry IV, usurped the throne from Richard II, Henry IV set the precedent for his own possible usu...

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The conjunction of Franconian kings and Kaiser with the papacy had a long lasting significance just not for the successive history of Franconia, but also for the entire Europe. ... To resolve this issue, while Ludwig was in power he came up with number of plans to divide the Carolingian Empire equally among all to resolve the issue. ... After three years of hostile fight, struggling and discussions, all the involving parties were settled over the legacy of their father, Louis the Pious, in Verdun in 843. ... Meetings of the three leaders recognized and developed rules to control all their resp...

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Thus, Stanton asserts that the Canon Law consists of different moral codes for men and women. ... All rulers/kings in Europe became Christians. ... This oppression and discrimination against women which denies them equal rights with men is a clear violation of the rights of women under God's decree of equality for both men and women in Galatians 3:28. ... The Vatican obliged the leaders of the nuns to enforce the Roman Catholic Church's will that condemns abortion on all grounds on individual members. ... Consequently, women in the Roman Catholic Church have no say in almost all matt...

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Are women still viewed differently than men? ... Are women still viewed differently than men? ... Women leadership has been one of those oxy-morons; a phenomenon forced underground, working beneath the level of accessible language such as: kings, chairman and presidents, usually male gender. ... Can men have these qualities and reflect them on others? ... The incorporation of all women leaders at all levels of the labor movement is an important step in achieving this objective. ...

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1 Enoch is one of the foundational texts of Jewish apocalyptic literature. 1 Though not an official part of the Jewish canon, Enoch's journey into the realm of angels, and God's revelation of "all mysteries" (Enoch 59:2) regarding the end of days and the salvation of the elect do form an important scaffolding upon which subsequent Jewish apocalyptic literature is built. ... Not all scholars of Judaism's influence on early Christianity agree with Gruenwald, Couliano and Frankfurter's analysis of Enoch's minimal influence on Revelation. ... Aune.12 Seven, in J...

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Today Behns work is heralded as feminist, a strong commentary on womens role in her society and how women were viewed by men during the Restoration period. ... In these plays revolving around the rover Willmore, Behn addresses some delicate issues concerning mens and womens rights, duties and privileges in a society where male dominance is taken for granted. ... He likes Naples where there is "a kind of legal authoriz'd Fornication, where the Men are not chid for 't, nor the Women despis'd" (I.ii: 123-5). ... But like Horner, all women seem the same to him. ... All this occurs a...

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Livy says that he wishes his readers to note how men lived, and how eventually the state was ruined when discipline broke down bit by bit (Preface), and this is a great example of that. Livy is stating that once men acted with justice and gave respect to their political opponents. After all, they were still Roman citizens. ... Just as Augustus is re-establishing the Republic as a guise for his control and restoring Rome to the political freedom it had once known, Livy is relating to the population that such men existed who fought by means of the law, rather than with clubs and knives. ... To d...

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Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, is often regarded as the greatest military commanders of all time. ... For all the military accolades attributed to Alexander the Great, his self-centred attitude to kingship meant he was more concerned with his own glory than the future of the dynasty. ... However similar the two Macedonian kings may have been, Alexander distanced himself as far as possible from the exploits and reputation of Philip II since his attitude to his father had turned from one of admiration and rivalry to complete resentment. ... The young king could ...

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All Emperors have been descendants of the same imperial family. ... Though limited in power, all dominant statutes of power such as the Fujiwara and Hojo regents to the Minamoto, Ashikaga and Tokugawa shoguns have all respected the Emperor. ... This historical account included the description of a hundred states, or tribes that seemed to be unified under the imperial clan headed by kings or queens, in which Queen Himiko in the Yayoi period, was mentioned. ... The term Kofun's are keyhole shaped burial mounds that are found all over Japan with the earliest ones found on Kyushu island. .....

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"...the five Vicars of Christ who ruled the Holy See during Magellan's lifetime [1480-1521] were the least Christian of men; the least devout, least scrupulous, least compassionate, and among the least chaste - lechers, almost without exception. ... It was the largest landowner in Europe and all the kings of Christendom were considered vassals of the pope and with this power came corruption. ... He believed that what one construes in their conscience while reading the Bible is how they should live their life since the Bible has all of the answers. "All of this served to undermine the...

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Collectively, they cover events running from the mid ninth century to the mid eleventh and located in all inhabited parts of Iceland (and some uninhabited), though saga-writing flourished above all in the West and North. ... Among plot motifs which recur in these sagas and are based on historical reality are a prelude in Norway prior to emigration to Iceland, and the tanfer (journey abroad), in which an ambitious young Icelander sails abroad, usually to Scandinavia and the British Isles, to trade, raid, or to serve kings and earls with his sword or his poetic gifts. ... (All names are angli...

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Pure democracy, however, as the government of the state by which all the people in every detail, is not, as Rousseau says, a possible human institution. All governments are really mixed in character; and what we call a democracy is only a more or less democratic government. ... Humbly speaking, in default of natural sanctions, the laws of justice are ineffective among men" (Book II: VI). Of the law, which set up among men this reign of mutual justice, the General Will is the source. ... Rousseau sees clearly that it is impossible to place any limits upon the power of the State; when the peo...

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Pure democracy, however, as the government of the state by which all the people in every detail, is not, as Rousseau says, a possible human institution. All governments are really mixed in character; and what we call a democracy is only a more or less democratic government. ... Humbly speaking, in default of natural sanctions, the laws of justice are ineffective among men" (Book II: VI). Of the law, which set up among men this reign of mutual justice, the General Will is the source. ... Rousseau sees clearly that it is impossible to place any limits upon the power of the State; when the peo...

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Both characters are also lower in rank than their leaders, who are both kings and semi-divine. ... Gilgamesh begins by outwardly stating that Gilgamesh travels far and sees all, and that his adventures are set down on a tablet of stone, which implies a sort of immortality right from the outset. It is in this paean to Gilgamesh at the very opening of the epic which would seem to summarize all that comes after and set his seemingly uninteresting and un-heroic end in a perspective, which many commentators seem to overlook. ...

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Parakumba (Parakaramabahu) the lord of men had this constructed - (Parakumba) who had streams and rivers dammed (to form) reservoirs, thereby impounding all waters (or rejoicing the whole world) and caused fields in all Sri Lanka to be cultivated. - The Padaviya Inscription (12th Century A.D.) ... Many centuries of religious development and metaphysical speculation culminated in the rise of Buddhism, which preached that men could assure their welfare here and in hereafter, and attain final beatitude by their own efforts, without divine help. ... The moral teachings of Buddhism conducive to t...

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But the suggestion on climate can be ruled out as the distribution of suicides cross the globe point out that suicides occur in all climatic conditions nd in all countries, such as Italy, whose climate remains unaltered yet it has witnessed great changes in their suicide rates. ... He says that suicide rates in cities and countryside differ because in the latter, all economic activity slows down in winter with low levels of production and lesser human interaction because of the atmospheric conditions but during spring the suicide rates increase due to a temperature that favors an increase in e...

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By the middle of the 12th century almost all of these bodies had adopted the Rule of St Augustine. ... The dissolution of the monasteries in England by Henry VIII included all those belonging to the Austin Friars. ... As early as 1354 the order had provided 24 popes, 200 cardinals, 7,000 archbishops, 15,000 bishops, 1,560 canonized saints, and 5,000 holy people worthy of canonization, a number since increased to 40,000, and it had included 20 emperors, 10 empresses, 47 kings, 50 queens, and many other royal and noble people. ... The Reformation left not more than 5,000, but this number has sin...

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This was based on Locke's belief that all men come into the world as potential equals, and their mind like a blank page to which every impression is impacted. ... The obvious danger of such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculiarly lead by some of the richest men in America such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and George Washington. These rich, privileged men, and future authors of the Declaration of Independence, were confronted with an atmosphere that desperately required the backing of the poor and working-class p...

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Thus begun the revolution of the bourgeoisie, a class struggle against the aristocracy which lasted until the creation of the National assembly in June 1789.7 The bourgeoisie aimed to form civil equality and establish a regime where all men obeyed the same laws. ...

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The same was true in England, but without such a negative consequence as the English kings were devout patrons, not power-politics. ... He was ruler of all the land and maintained his unquestioned power throughout the land by declaring the church a Landeskirche of which he was the supreme defender. ... William used the opportunity to keep the Church at bay and assumed personal control over all church politics, holding elections in his own chapel. ... Although the treaty did humiliate Barbarossa and forced him to kneel before the Pope and accede to his divine superiority, Alexander permitte...

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Henry, in his novel 'Cabbages and Kings'. ... It's funny and it's the fact that all Central America governments, one time or another, wanted to build ocean-to-ocean railroad, taking advantage of the narrow territories of the continent. ... The fact that to this date, although there are over 900 miles of railroad in Honduras, all are within the rich bananas lands of the North Coast. ... United paid all the debt of IRC, stop building the Pacific port in exchange for free operation on IRC's tracks, which was very beneficial for the company to ship bananas to the U.S in t...

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Being temporarily free from their restrictions, thousands of people comprising men and women of all ages gathered in Pagoda Park for a single purpose "to express their earnest desire for independence. ... "Within days, independence movements erupted in virtually every corner of the country, in nearly all segments of the society, with over two million directly participating in more than fifteen hundred gatherings, occurring in all but seven of Josun's 219 county administrations (Lee, 1988, p. 344). " That the Korean-Protestant people were deeply involved in orchestrating and particip...

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